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A Catalogue for the Special Exhibit at the National Museum, Manila, Philippines, June 22, 1988 to July 31, 1988.

Final results and conclusions of fifteen years of patient efforts of research, restoration and preservation of the thousands of items found on the wreck of the Honourable East India Company ship Griffin, which sank with a cargo of porcelain, silks and tea in the Sulu Sea in 1761.

In addition, the Griffin was part of a convoy sailing along a so far little - known and inventive alternate sea route - and accompanied a secret mission of the first importance for the policy of expansion which the East India Company aggressively if discreetly pursued at the time. The minute restoration, documentation and comparison of the vestiges of this ship-wreck cast new light on European trading patterns, but above all on our knowledge of the great Chinese art of porcelain manufacture and decoration and its master artists.

CONTENT

Part I - Historical Overview
1. The East India Company: Outpost of an Empire
2. The East Indiamen
3. An Englishman in the Sulu Sea
4. The Sinking of the Griffin<

Part II - Field Work on the Griffin Site
1. The Survey
2. The Excavation

Part III - A Primer on Chinese Porcelain
1. The Porcelain Trade of the EIC
2. Porcelain Manufacture in China

Part IV - The Griffin Porcelain
1. Underglaze Blue Porcelain
2. Underglaze Blue and Enamelled Porcelain
3. Enamelled Porcelain
4. Blanc de Chine

Part V - Other Griffin Relies
1. The Metal Objects
2. Glass, Clay Pipes and Ivory

Part VI - A Study on Analogous Porcelain

Part VII
Bibliography
Notes

Appendix
Documentation in Underwater Archaeology